sharing-2
Original: sharing-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Green alien: So cool to meet your species and share stuff!
Man: Yeah!
Panel 2:
Alien: Ow! Ow! You're gonna love this, it's a weird illusion.
Panel 3:
Alien: If you look at it, your brain keeps cycling back and forth thinking it's a duck, then a rabbit, then the true source of meaning and purpose throughout the universe, then back to a duck.
Panel 4 (man looking at the illusion):
Man: I just see the duck and the rabbit.
Panel 5:
Alien: Oh oh my god oh god your brain can't-? Nevermind! Nevermind! Just a joke!
Panel 6 (man looking uneasy/concerned):
Panel 7:
Alien: Aha! Pranked! The universe is an indifferent void with no inherent significance! Hahahaha! You should've seen your face!
Panel 8 (the alien laughs hysterically while the man stands by, deadpan):
Alien: Ha ha. HAHAHA HAHAHA
Votey:
Man (thinking/asking, looking weary): Can I go back to the probe room?
Green alien: So cool to meet your species and share stuff!
Man: Yeah!
Panel 2:
Alien: Ow! Ow! You're gonna love this, it's a weird illusion.
Panel 3:
Alien: If you look at it, your brain keeps cycling back and forth thinking it's a duck, then a rabbit, then the true source of meaning and purpose throughout the universe, then back to a duck.
Panel 4 (man looking at the illusion):
Man: I just see the duck and the rabbit.
Panel 5:
Alien: Oh oh my god oh god your brain can't-? Nevermind! Nevermind! Just a joke!
Panel 6 (man looking uneasy/concerned):
Panel 7:
Alien: Aha! Pranked! The universe is an indifferent void with no inherent significance! Hahahaha! You should've seen your face!
Panel 8 (the alien laughs hysterically while the man stands by, deadpan):
Alien: Ha ha. HAHAHA HAHAHA
Votey:
Man (thinking/asking, looking weary): Can I go back to the probe room?
Alt text
An eight-panel SMBC comic. A green, large-eyed alien excitedly greets a red-haired human man aboard what looks like a spacecraft. The alien shows the man a 'weird illusion,' explaining that a viewer's brain cycles between seeing a duck, a rabbit, and 'the true source of meaning and purpose throughout the universe,' then back to a duck. The man, looking at the picture, flatly says he only sees the duck and the rabbit. The alien panics ('oh my god your brain can't-? Nevermind! Just a joke!'), the man looks uneasy, then the alien bursts out laughing: 'Aha! Pranked! The universe is an indifferent void with no inherent significance! You should've seen your face!' and cackles 'HAHAHA' while the man stands there deadpan. Votey: a close-up of the weary, unimpressed man asking, 'Can I go back to the probe room?'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.